[1863] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: update.pl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Oct 22 19:44:36 1997
To: candea@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 22 Oct 1997 19:44:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: George Candea's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:16:10 -0400"
George Candea <candea@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Is the update.pl script really suppose to output so many errors? If
> these are indeed ignorable errors, shouldn't the script >& them ?
The "package ... already installed" messages are normal and can be
ignored. (The script doesn't compare package versions, although
perhaps it should.) The other messages, though not indicative of
major problems, are still significant enough to display, so we don't
just ignore rpm's output.
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]